PrecisionLender, the digital banking software vendor's largest acquisition to date, sells sales coaching software.

Bank and other lenders are said to have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into financing private-equity firms and their investment deals in recent years. Defaults have been low, but an economic slowdown could put these relationships to the test.

The Tennessee company, which was outbid in an effort to buy a North Carolina bank earlier this year, will pay $41 million for a branch network in the middle part of its home state.

Credit unions in the Garden State are frequently at the bottom of national rankings for key financial metrics. Further consolidation is likely needed to help bolster these results.

The Pennsylvania company will pay $346 million for MutualFirst Financial.

It's difficult to recruit and retain talent amid low unemployment, while uncertainty about GSE and BSA reform makes planning harder, bankers said at the ABA convention.

Laurie Stewart, a former credit union CEO and incoming chair of the American Bankers Association, says a string of bank sales to credit unions supports the case that the latter's tax-exempt status should be eliminated.

The company will buy two suburban locations from North Shore Bank.

Steven Retzloff, the company's president, will succeed George Martinez in January.

Hometown Financial, which completed three acquisitions this year, is considering branch openings for a push into the city.

The Raleigh-based credit union hit its latest milestone just three years after reaching 200,000 members.

The New York company will enter Suffolk County after it buys Empire Bancorp.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette FCU, originally chartered to serve newspaper employees, has received regulatory approval to merge into a larger institution.

Midsize players like BankUnited, BOK and Fulton Financial plan to rely on selective M&A, catering to niches overlooked by big banks, aggressive recruitment of commercial lenders and other strategies to stimulate revenue growth.

The Tennessee company has agreed to buy First Advantage, which specializes in financing manufactured housing purchases.

Retail technology provider Standard Cognition is putting its quick-rising valuation to work to stockpile tools as the checkout-free market enters a more competitive phase.

Centreville Bank will pay $116 million in cash for PB Bancorp.

The company agreed to buy Steuben Trust for $107 million.

The Columbus, Ga., company had been counting on increased volume to offset a squeeze in net interest margins.

The $32 million merger will create a bank with nearly $1 billion in assets.